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{{Short description|Canadian architect and painter}}
{{Short description|Canadian architect and artist (1906-1980)}}
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'''Maxwell Bates''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|RCA|size=100%}} LL.D (14 December 1906 – 14 September 1980) was an [[architect]] and [[expressionist]] [[Painting|painter]].
'''Maxwell Bates''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|CM|RCA|size=100%}} LL.D (14 December 1906 – 14 September 1980) was an [[architect]] and [[expressionist]] [[Painting|painter]].
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Bates returned to Calgary in 1946 to work with his father's architectural firm again. His first wife May Watson, whom he married in 1949, died in 1952. He then married Charlotte Kintzle in 1954.
Bates returned to Calgary in 1946 to work with his father's architectural firm again. His first wife May Watson, whom he married in 1949, died in 1952. He then married Charlotte Kintzle in 1954.


In 1949 Bates studied at the [[Brooklyn Museum]] with artist [[Max Beckmann]] and [[Abraham Rattner]]. As an architect, his most notable work was [[St. Mary's Cathedral, Calgary|St. Mary's Cathedral]], which was consecrated in 1957.
In 1949 Bates studied at the [[Brooklyn Museum]]; took Drawing and Painting with [[Max Beckmann]] and Analysis and Criticism with [[Abraham Rattner]].<ref name=MRAIC /> As an architect, his most notable work was [[St. Mary's Cathedral, Calgary|St. Mary's Cathedral]], which was consecrated in 1957.


Bates suffered a [[stroke]] in 1961. In 1962 he moved from Calgary to [[Victoria, British Columbia]]. He suffered a second stroke in 1978 and died in Victoria in 1980.
Bates suffered a [[stroke]] in 1961. In 1962 he moved from Calgary to [[Victoria, British Columbia]]. He suffered a second stroke in 1978 and died in Victoria in 1980.


His work has been showcased at art galleries worldwide and [[retrospective]] exhibitions have been shown in galleries such as the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]] and the [[Vancouver Art Gallery]]. He was an associate member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] and a member of the C.S.P.W.C. (1951); C.S.G.A. (1947); the Alberta Society of Artists; the B.C. Society of Artists; F.C.A. (1947); the C.G.P.; and the Calgary Arts Club.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Bradfield|first=Helen Pepall|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/118037|title=Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=0-07-092504-6|location=Toronto| oclc=118037}}</ref> In Victoria, B.C. he was a member and the first president of the Limners, a group formed in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |title=Article |url=https://emagazine.aggv.ca/10-things-know-limners/ |website=emagazine.aggv.ca |publisher=AGGV |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/archive/victorias-limners-artists-reunite-for-group-show-at-winchester-galleries-4601076 |website=/www.timescolonist.com |publisher=Times Colonist |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref> In 1971, he received an [[honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the [[University of Calgary]]. In 1980 he was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]].
His work has been showcased at art galleries worldwide and [[retrospective]] exhibitions have been shown in galleries such as the [[Mackenzie Art Gallery]] (1960),<ref name="sim " >{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=http://sim-publishing.com/bca/batesm.htm |website=sim-publishing.com |publisher=Sim Publishing |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref> the [[Winnipeg Art Gallery]] (1968),<ref name=MRAIC /> the [[Vancouver Art Gallery]] (1974),<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/tmaxwell+bates/tmaxwell+bates/1%2C17%2C23%2CB/exact&FF=tmaxwell+bates+in+retrospect+1921+1971&1%2C3%2C |website=library.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>and the [[Art Gallery of Greater Victoria]] (1982), curated by [[Ian M. Thom]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/tmaxwell+bates/tmaxwell+bates/1%2C17%2C23%2CB/exact&FF=tmaxwell+bates+a+retrospective+maxwell+bates+une+retrospective&1%2C2%2C |website=www.gallery.ca |publisher=National Gallery of Canada |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>

In 1971, he received an [[honorary degree|honorary doctorate]] from the [[University of Calgary]].<ref name="ucal " /> In 1980 he was made a Member of the [[Order of Canada]].<ref name="gg " />

== Memberships ==
Bates was a member of the [[Royal Architectural Institute of Canada]] (Member 1951 Life Member 1963); a full member of the [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] (1947) and a member of the [[Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour]] (C.S.P.W.C.) (1951); [[Canadian Society of Graphic Art]] (C.S.G.A.) (1947); the Alberta Society of Artists; the B.C. Society of Artists (1967); the [[Federation of Canadian Artists]] (F.C.A.) (1947); the [[Canadian Group of Painters]] (C.G.P.) (1957); and the Calgary Arts Club.<ref name="sim " /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Bradfield|first=Helen Pepall|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/118037|title=Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection|date=1970|publisher=McGraw-Hill|isbn=0-07-092504-6|location=Toronto| oclc=118037}}</ref> In Victoria, B.C. he was a member and the first president of the Limners, a group formed in 1971 which he helped to found.<ref>{{cite web |title=Article |url=https://emagazine.aggv.ca/10-things-know-limners/ |website=emagazine.aggv.ca |date=March 2018 |publisher=AGGV |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Exhibitions |url=https://www.timescolonist.com/archive/victorias-limners-artists-reunite-for-group-show-at-winchester-galleries-4601076 |website=/www.timescolonist.com |date=24 October 2013 |publisher=Times Colonist |access-date=14 October 2023}}</ref>


== Honours ==
== Honours ==
* [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]]<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}</ref>
* [[Royal Canadian Academy of Arts]] (1971);<ref name=RCA1880>{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}</ref>
* Honorary award from the [[Royal Architectural Institute of Canada]] (MRAIC);<ref name=MRAIC>{{cite web |title=Chronology |url=http://www.calgaryalliedartsfoundation.ca/maxwell-bates/ |website=www.calgaryalliedartsfoundation.ca |date=16 September 2017 |publisher=Calgary Allied Arts Foundation |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>
* Honorary doctorate from the [[University of Calgary]] (1971);<ref name="ucal " >{{cite web |title=Recipients |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/archives/2012/who-honorary-degree-recipients.html |website=www.ucalgary.ca |publisher=U Calgary |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>
* [[Order of Canada]];<ref name="gg " >{{cite web |title=Recipients |url=https://www.gg.ca/en/honours/recipients/146-12982 |website=www.gg.ca |publisher=Governor General of Canada |access-date=28 January 2024}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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*[http://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=exact&CISOBOX1=Bates%2C%20Maxwell%2C%201906-1980&CISOFIELD1=creato&CISOROOT=/lc Maxwell Bates, Lethbridge College Buchanan Art Collection]
*[http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=5182&pid=0 Historic Places of Canada]
*[http://www.historicplaces.ca/en/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=5182&pid=0 Historic Places of Canada]

==Further reading ==
* {{cite book |last1=Townshend |first1=Nancy |title=Maxwell Bates : Canada's premier expressionist of the 20th century : his art, life and prisoner of war notebook |date=2005 |publisher=Snyder Hedlin Fine Arts Ltd. |location=Calgary |url=https://library.gallery.ca/search~S1?/tmaxwell+bates/tmaxwell+bates/1%2C17%2C23%2CB/frameset&FF=tmaxwell+bates+canadas+premier+expressionist+of+the+++20th+century+his+art+life+and+prisoner+of+war+notebook&1%2C1%2C}}


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Maxwell Bates
Born
Maxwell Bennett Bates

14 December 1906
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Died4 September 1980(1980-09-04) (aged 73)
Victoria, British Columbia
Alma materProvincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary
Spouses
May Watson
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(m. 1949; died 1952)​
Charlotte Kintzle
​
(m. 1954)​
AwardsCM
OccupationArchitect
BuildingsSt. Mary's Cathedral

Maxwell Bates CM RCA LL.D (14 December 1906 – 14 September 1980) was an architect and expressionist painter.

Biography

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Born in Calgary, Alberta in 1906, Bates started painting at an early age; his piece In the Kitchen was painted when he was 15 years old. As a young adult, he worked for his father's architecture firm. His father, William Stanley Bates, was himself a prominent architect in early Calgary who designed the Burns Building (1912) and the Grain Exchange (1909).

Bates studied with Lars Jonson Haukaness at the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art in Calgary from 1926–1927.[1] In 1931 Bates moved to England, where he supported himself as a door-to-door vacuum salesman while exhibiting his art work at the Wertheim Gallery. In England he associated with promising young artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Victor Pasmore.

St Mary's Cathedral in Calgary was designed by Maxwell Bates.

As a member of the British Territorial Army in 1940, Bates was captured in France and became a prisoner of war in Thuringia. He remained a POW until 1945. This experience was captured in his 1978 book A Wilderness of Days.

Bates returned to Calgary in 1946 to work with his father's architectural firm again. His first wife May Watson, whom he married in 1949, died in 1952. He then married Charlotte Kintzle in 1954.

In 1949 Bates studied at the Brooklyn Museum; took Drawing and Painting with Max Beckmann and Analysis and Criticism with Abraham Rattner.[2] As an architect, his most notable work was St. Mary's Cathedral, which was consecrated in 1957.

Bates suffered a stroke in 1961. In 1962 he moved from Calgary to Victoria, British Columbia. He suffered a second stroke in 1978 and died in Victoria in 1980.

His work has been showcased at art galleries worldwide and retrospective exhibitions have been shown in galleries such as the Mackenzie Art Gallery (1960),[3] the Winnipeg Art Gallery (1968),[2] the Vancouver Art Gallery (1974),[4]and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (1982), curated by Ian M. Thom.[5]

In 1971, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Calgary.[6] In 1980 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.[7]

Memberships

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Bates was a member of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (Member 1951 Life Member 1963); a full member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (1947) and a member of the Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour (C.S.P.W.C.) (1951); Canadian Society of Graphic Art (C.S.G.A.) (1947); the Alberta Society of Artists; the B.C. Society of Artists (1967); the Federation of Canadian Artists (F.C.A.) (1947); the Canadian Group of Painters (C.G.P.) (1957); and the Calgary Arts Club.[3][8] In Victoria, B.C. he was a member and the first president of the Limners, a group formed in 1971 which he helped to found.[9][10]

Honours

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References

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  1. ^ Maxwell Bennett Bates (Elliott Louis Gallery)
  2. ^ a b c "Chronology". www.calgaryalliedartsfoundation.ca. Calgary Allied Arts Foundation. 16 September 2017. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  3. ^ a b "Exhibitions". sim-publishing.com. Sim Publishing. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Exhibitions". library.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  5. ^ "Exhibitions". www.gallery.ca. National Gallery of Canada. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Recipients". www.ucalgary.ca. U Calgary. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  7. ^ a b "Recipients". www.gg.ca. Governor General of Canada. Retrieved 28 January 2024.
  8. ^ Bradfield, Helen Pepall (1970). Art Gallery of Ontario: The Canadian Collection. Toronto: McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-07-092504-6. OCLC 118037.
  9. ^ "Article". emagazine.aggv.ca. AGGV. March 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Exhibitions". /www.timescolonist.com. Times Colonist. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  11. ^ "Members since 1880". Royal Canadian Academy of Arts. Archived from the original on 26 May 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2013.
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Further reading

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